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Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft (Firm)

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Corporate name headingArmstrong Whitworth Aircraft (Firm)
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Variant(s)Sir W.G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Company
W.G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Company
Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Company
Found inWikipedia, 18 Feb. 2011: under Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft (Sir W.G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Company, or Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, was a British aircraft manufacturer; establ. in 1912 as the Aerial Department of the Sir W.G Armstrong Whitworth & Company engineering group in Newcastle-upon-Tyne; when Armstrong Whitworth and Vickers Limited merged in 1927, Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft did not join the new grouping; in 1935 it was purchased by Hawker Aircraft (which became Hawker Siddeley Aircraft) but continued to operate as an individual entity until 1961 when it was merged with another Hawker Siddeley company, Gloster Aircraft Company, to form Whitworth Gloster Aircraft)